International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
Purpose and Objective
IAMAS is one of the eight associations dealing with the Earth system and its environs that make up the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). The scope of IAMAS includes the atmospheres of the Earth and other planets. IAMAS is made up of ten international commissions and one committee which together play a major role in implementing IAMAS’s activities. The ten commissions cover Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (ICACGP), Atmospheric Electricity (ICAE), Climate (ICCL), Clouds and Precipitation (ICCP), Dynamical Meteorology (ICDM), the Middle Atmosphere (ICMA), stratospheric Ozone (IOC), Planetary Atmospheres and their Evolution (ICPAE), Polar Meteorology (ICPM), and atmospheric Radiation (IRC). The Committee on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (CNAA) brings together scientists covering the areas of Nucleation Theory and Experiment, Tropospheric and stratospheric aerosols, Cloud Drop and Ice Nucleation and Aerosol-Climate Interactions.
Many of these commissions play international leadership roles in their specialist areas [see http://www.iamas.org/commissions-within-iamas/]. The commissions provide an important supplement and extension to the leadership and research role of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which is the governmental body with a scientific scope that is comparable to that of IAMAS.
Acronym: IAMAS
Country or Region: global
Established Since: 1919
Number of Members: no personal membership; some 60 adhering countries
Website: www.IAMAS.org
Contact:
President: Andreae Flossman: [email protected]
Secretary General: Keith Aversion: [email protected]
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